The Timezone Run

From Wisconsin we took off for The West, crossing the entire Central timezone in one (long) day. We managed to lose 2 hours in the process, so in the end we finished only 10 hours after leaving Wisconsin instead of the 12 our bodies noticed.

On the way crossed the Mississippi, which looks like a nice, peaceful braided river up here. We crossed over it via a couple of bridges and a sizeable island in the middle.

Despite having nothing much to see driving across western Wisconsin, southern Minnesota and South Dakota, it was at least a beautiful sunny day.


At the far side of the drive, we crossed The Big Muddy -- the Missouri river. For a river with such a fearsome reputation in American history, it was actually a rather pretty thing. Lots of old, long bridges and what looked like peaceable water. The two longest rivers in America now safely crossed, we must finally be in The West, right? We spent the night in the Badlands/Black Hills area in western South Dakota. Pictures and such from that rest day in the next post...